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Thunderbird Grammar Checker 0.7 has been released

Link:  https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/grammar-checker/ This is a maintenance release that has fixed the compatibility issues with the LanguageTool API v2 (the current one) and the new Thunderbird API. No functionality has been added, but now the add-on actually works. Development of the add-on have been moved to Github:  https://github.com/nuald/thb-gramchecker Unfortunately, I can't actively maintain the add-on, but all pull requests are welcomed.

Thunderbird Grammar Checker 0.5 is released

Link: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/14781/ Now it's compatible with Thunderbird 3.x. The language for checking is correlated with the Spell Checker language. Sorry for delay, but my work load can't give me enough time to support it well. Future plans: Support inline highlighting. Backend is almost ready, but there are some problems with frontend - I just don't know how to properly modify DOM of the opened message compose window. Looks like I have to use/hook some JS-events, but my current research gives nothing. Move to After The Deadline server instead of LT server-mode. LT is integrated to AtD server (see the News section on http://www.languagetool.org/ ). However, there is a problem with the current AtD server - it doesn't work locally now: http://openatd.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/217 . Until they fix the problem, I can't recommend to use it. Implement pure JS-based Grammar Checker engine. See below the notes. All of these require...

Seven Ws (composing brief software requirements)

Quis, quid, quando, ubi, cur, quem ad modum, quibus adminiculis. (Who, what, when, where, why, in what way, by what means) Hermagoras of Temnos Quotation above is created by Hermagoras for defining seven "circumstances" as a way of the formulating or analyzing rhetorical questions. But it is useful for many other areas, like for composing brief software requirements. Sometimes it's essential for us to analyze the perspective project as fast as possible, without creating tremendous SRS, but merely ask few questions and begin to work. Especially, it relates to Agile Development, and can be easily used as a reference point for starting a project. Let us interpret these questions to ones of the sample meanings: Who will use that project? What kind of software does the project represent? When should the project be delivered to the end users? Where is the project intended to be used? Why would the project be successful? In what way is the project supposed to w...

Thunderbird Grammar Checker add-on

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Official Thunderbird Grammar Checker add-on: https://addons.mozilla.org/thunderbird/addon/14781 Back-end functionality is based on LanguageTool functionality (in particular, the add-on uses its webserver). Though it can work without any further customization, it is strongly recommended to setup a local LT server (see below), and change the add-on preferences to use your server. By default, the add-on uses the local server and falls back to public LT server (that can't handle the high load and can't guarantee the privacy). The grammar checking is available via Tools menu, the context menu and the corresponding toolbar button. Language and server settings can be changed using the add-on preferences: Supported languages : English (en), Dutch (nl), French (fr), German (de), Italian (it), Polish (pl), Romanian (ro), Russian (ru), Slovak (sk), Slovenian (sl), Spanish (es), Swedish (sv), Ukrainian (uk), Asturian (ast), Belarusian (be), Breton (br), Catalan (ca), Chines...